March 9 2004
Rough treatment for Thailand sex-tourists

Thailand is a popular sex-tourist destination but politically-correct guidebooks, such as The Rough Guide, offer somewhat biased advice. According to them, gay sex-tourism is perfectly ok but a straight bloke doing exactly the same thing is a lecherous punter. Here's a quote from Thailand: The Rough Guide which illustrates where they are coming from:
To me, this seems indistinguishable from the straight scene. The book's gay contributors probably spend their evenings paying for sex with Thai men but they don't have the guts to admit that this equates to prostitution.
Naturally, the same book pours scorn on the sexploits of straight men.
[Posted to Books by David]
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Books
The Vampire of Siam by Jim Newport
Fast Eddie's Lucky 7 A-Go-Go by David Young
Rough treatment for Thailand sex-tourists
Apsara Jet by Nicolas Merriweather
Oxford-Duden Pictorial Thai & English Dictionary
Heart talk: Say what you feel in Thai
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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